Affiliate Cost Merger Reputation 
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2012
A strategic combination can win in a new segment of the market, which neither of you could do alone in the same timeframe or at the same cost. Cost sharing and economies of scale. Companies work together on segments of their business where they believe they can minimize costs but not jeopardize their unique attributes.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Affiliate marketing and link exchange agreements. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 4, 2011
A strategic combination can win in a new segment of the market, which neither of you could do alone in the same timeframe or at the same cost. Cost sharing and economies of scale. Companies work together on segments of their business where they believe they can minimize costs but not jeopardize their unique attributes.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 1, 2014
Capitalize on shared costs and common distribution. Affiliate marketing and link exchange agreements. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.
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